Sporty Olympic links: Chinese gymnasts and women's golds

Excellent article on mamapop.com about allegedly underage Chinese gymnasts. Like Mamapop, Dollymix - rightly or wrongly - can't help feeling very maternal and protective towards these kids.

On the other hand, the excellent Kira Cochrane over at the Guardian thinks the Olympics might be good for women, if only because it's one of the only times that female athletes can enjoy any media coverage. "Olympic events have always been important to female spectators, partly because we see so little women's sport the rest of the time. As we went to press, the only Team GB competitors to have won medals were women, and yet women's sporting achievements are usually entirely overlooked [...] an analysis of all the national daily newspapers over the course of three days in March found that "just 2% of articles and 1% of images in the sports pages of national newspapers are devoted to female athletes and women's sports."

...and there's an excitable but very nice report on Rebecca Adlington's 400m freestyle gold in the Times here.

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